Day: June 23, 2016

Posted by Kathy Waller

For the past few weeks, on my personal blog, I’ve posted doodles I’ve done from prompts taken from 365 Days of Doodling by Carin Channing.

Doodle #6.
Doodle a pilgrimage you’d like to take.

Doodle #6. House of the Seven Gables

In November, while in Salem, Massachusetts, for Writer Unboxed’s UnCon, I’ll make a pilgrimage to the House of the Seven Gables, which Nathaniel Hawthorne made famous in his novel of the same name.

House of the Seven Gables. By Detroit Publishing Co. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables#/media/File:House_of_the_Seven_Gables_%281915%29.jpg

Fortunately, it won’t look like my doodle. If I’d been sensible, I’d have chosen to travel to a two-dimensional setting, something flat,  with no corners or gables. I’d have planned the drawing more carefully, too. I was so wrapped up in keeping the gables from running off the page, I forgot the house would need a roof.

To help with identification, I numbered the gables.

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